Quinta da Cardiga

Today I walked the whole day with Fran, we went through several farm fields where he helped me to practice my Spanish a bit, and it really needs a lot of work.

We saw a church built around the time of the renaissance and tried to go inside but the doors were shut. We then continued walking and the path led us to a banded ancient town. It maybe looked like it had been completely abandoned for almost 50 years at the least and nature was still working hard to reclaim it all. This is where we had lunch and then explored around a little found a beautiful and completely abandoned palace!

It was right on the River Tagus and at least Wikipedia says that the site dates to a Templar Castle from the 12th century, the. Current building is most from the 17th century. We couldn’t go into the building or grounds because it was quite secured and there was a small wall. I did climb the side of the wall a bit to snap a picture of the courtyard.

Afterwards, we walked along mud logging roads for the rest of the way that led into a Eucalyptus forest and Fran stopped in the forest for a job interview call. Either to sell insurance or work in a food service of a hospital or maybe something else entirely.

I completed the rest of the day by myself, maybe 2 hours. Toward the end, there was a huge hill to climb. At the very top there was a sign someone had painted that said ‘well done’ which a pretty winded me fully agreed with.Read more